Moby-duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea - Softcover

Donovan Hohn

3.3

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9781908526021: Moby-duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea

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ISBN 10: 1908526025 ISBN 13: 9781908526021

Publisher: Union Books, 2012

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Title: Moby-Duck( The True Story of 28 800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers Oceanographers Environmentalists and Fools ) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: DonovanHohn <>Publisher: PenguinBooks

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About the Author:

Donovan Hohn is a journalist whose work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Outside and the Best Creative Nonfiction. The recipient of Whiting Writers' Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, he is currently a senior editor at Harper's. He lives in New York with his wife and children.

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'Hohn's immersive investigation into the environmental, political and economic story behind this reads like a great seafarer's adventure.' Seven, Sunday Telegraph 'at its core this is a fascinating story and Hohn makes a rare sucess of the difficult task of finding genuine human interest in the issue of global pollution' New Statesman 'a whimsical eco-expedition' The Guardian 'fine, well-written travelogue' The Spectator 'humorous account...a sobering reflection' We Love This Book 'a quixotic adventure around the world' -- Horatia Harrod The Daily Telegraph 'a troubled philosophical consideration of man's relationship with the artifical and the natural...the journey is extraordinary' Metro "Hohn...proves to be a beguiling companion" The Mail on Sunday 'part adventure, part travelogue...a quirky account becomes a wider story of environmental damage' Culture, The Sunday Times 'he conjures a truly terrifying vision' Seven, Sunday Telegraph

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